Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tota ...

, the 1955

Governor General's Award The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...

s for Literary Merit were the nineteenth such awards. The awards in this period had no monetary prize but were an honour for the authors.

Winners

*Fiction:

Lionel Shapiro Lionel Shapiro (February 12, 1908 – May 27, 1958) was a Canadian journalist and novelist. A war correspondent for '' The Montreal Gazette'', he landed at the Allied invasion of Sicily, Salerno and Juno Beach on D-Day The Normandy land ...

, ''The Sixth of June'' (filmed as '' D-Day the Sixth of June''). *Poetry or Drama: Wilfred Watson, ''Friday's Child''. *Non-Fiction: N.J. Berrill, ''Man's Emerging Mind''. *Non-Fiction:

Donald G. Creighton Donald Grant Creighton (15 July 1902 – 19 December 1979) was a Canadian historian whose major works include ''The Commercial Empire of the St-Lawrence, 1760–1850'' (first published in 1937), a detailed study on the growth of the English merch ...

, ''John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain''. *Juvenile: Kerry Wood, ''The Map-Maker''.

External links

* {{GovernorGeneralsAwards Governor General's Awards

Governor General's Awards The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...